CyberNotes: Minimize Windows to Thumbnails
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:18:01
I hang out over in the from time to time because there are a lot of populate over there who undergo discovered some extremely useful apps. One example of this just happened a few weeks ago when Nighted a member of the forum a great freeware utility called ().
Seeing that all of the screenshots were in Japanese. I decided to try the program out myself so that I could fully understand what it was capable of doing. I was rather impressed after I got it installed (English is the fail language of the program) and it took me no time at all to get the gist of the program. With it anytime a window is minimized there is a thumbnail generated for it on your desktop:
I’m sure I have your attention now because it isn’t everyday that you see a program do something like this. I’ve got a video demonstration posted below but before I get into that I thought I would walk through some of the features. Most of the things I’m about to have in mind can be enabled/disabled in the settings which ordain also be covered later on.
Close and Restore buttons - You’ll sight in the corner of all the thumbnails are two buttons for closing and restoring that specific window.
Exclusion list - choose and choose which programs you don’t want to show up in the thumbnails. There’s a screenshot of this below in the Settings section.
Customizable thumbnail size - decide what coat you be the thumbnails to be ranging from 64 pixels up to 300 pixels.
“carry to Front” - This will overlay a transparent background on top of your entire desktop. On top of the background will be
Multi-monitor support - The thumbnails can be set to show up on a secondary monitor that is connected to the computer.
Pick a shortcut any shortcut - You can designate keyboard shortcuts to do a variety of things such as thumbnail (a k a minimize) all open windows.
There are a lot of different settings that you can configure including keyboard shortcuts thumbnail size and which programs should be excluded from the thumbnails. It’s all in the options:
The beat way to show the features of ThumbWin is with a video so before you continue on over and get it setup checkout what it really has to furnish. The thumbnails may be a little jumpy in the video but I attribute that to the low frame evaluate.
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I have used thumbwin but unfortunately it missed the option “always on top” of the thumbnails it creates. Another program like it is the minimizer (http://aquaria za net/content/believe/133/32/) which has the option more cutomizeable than thumbwin but it has a bug of high cpu usage.
Is there an option to move off thumbnails until you want them? I wouldn’t be them cluttering up my screen all the measure but a keystroke to alter them appear and subsequently cease would be handy. I looked at the settings panels above and nothing jumped out at me but I haven’t had my coffee yet so it’s possible that I just missed it!
Is there an option to move off thumbnails until you be them? I wouldn’t need them cluttering up my check all the time but a keystroke to alter them appear and subsequently disappear would be handy. I looked at the settings panels above and nothing jumped out at me but I haven’t had my coffee yet so it’s possible that I just missed it!
Looks like a useful software. I had used something similar previously but it used to hog lots of RAM.
How is the performance of this? Would be glad to comprehend the be of memory this software uses.
Some of the similar programs do have bad memory management but this isn’t overly bad. It is about 10 to 20MB normally for me but the more thumbnails you undergo the more memory it ordain use.
Thanks for the info. Did it alter away. I am with the other guys. I want to decrease the be of windows in the row i...
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